For example, why is San Francisco’s design considered a failure as in this @DanaGoldstein piece? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/san-francisco-school-segregation.amp.html …
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But Berkeley’s is considered a (relative) success? https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Integration_Defended_9.16.09(1).pdf …
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Or is that even the right interpretation? Or what other West Coast examples are out there?
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In 1979 the stricter state standard imposed by the CA Supreme Court was abolished by constitutional referendum. The LA busing fights had deep and long lasting repercussions, political and educational
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Pasadena was a precedent setting legal case which established the principle that de facto segregation was sufficient legal grounds to force desegregation-unlike fed standard which required de jure. Here is the decisionhttps://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2d/59/876.html …
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The Crawford case in LAUSD followed using that legal basis. The de facto standard meant that exclusionary zoning and racist covenants were not a defense. Crawford was filed in 63 and litigated thru the 70s. The white student pop dropped so far that much of the case became moot.
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Glad you enjoyed resding it. I look back at me education in Oakland Public Schools and truly believe that segregation still was a thing in the 80’s. My elementary school was not very diverse on student population.
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One thing we did have though was a staff full of black teachers. But Oakland Public Schools still to this day siffers from financial issues even though they now have a even more diverse city of residents.
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